Raven’s Wing Poetry

Love Canvas by N. Nicholson

This was written for Read Write Prompt # 76: Changes.

-Nicole

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first, your color was green:
trees, flags, and your heart shared the color of
the rebirth of life and atoms and
photosynthesis was your queen, resting royally
in your ribcage, exploding roses and violets –
the fodder of schoolgirl crushes and bad poetry

love comes in colors
that you can’t deny

then somewhere along the way
you became black
because hearts cracked bleed black
once their scarlet wells run dry
they never mend on their own
so you set the clock to wind slow
threaded needles and stitched together
your two halves to let them grow,
meld, and become one again

love comes in colors
that you can’t deny

now, you’re wrapped again
in the arms of love
so revel in the rain
of this new moment of bliss
and realize that you needed
nothing more than this:
an eternal perfect moment, crystalline and blue
generated from this new equation of hearts -

one plus one equals much more than two

this is an exponential explosion
and you left the evidence all over the universe
everything looks electric and brand new:

stars have discarded their old clothes
for large, blue white coronas
that shine in your beloved’s eyes
the sky has wiped her skin clean of clouds
to show you her naked translucent blackness
and even rainbows are supercharged
with a bright backbeat of incandescent joy
broadcasting through their stained glass smiles

and you marvel at this metamorphosis
but behind the backbeat of colors brand new
an unending truth once again shines through:

love comes in colors
that you can’t deny

Written 5/24/09 and 5/28/09
© 2009 Nicole Nicholson except for the refrain, which is borrowed from The Smashing Pumpkins song, “Crush”, which appears on their album Gish (© 1991 The Smashing Pumpkins and Virgin Records). All Rights Reserved on original material by N. Nicholson.

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